{"id":1928,"date":"2011-04-19T09:29:12","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T17:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=1928"},"modified":"2011-04-19T09:29:12","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T17:29:12","slug":"nba-draft-pool-thinning-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/nba-draft-pool-thinning-out\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Draft Pool Thinning Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/barnes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1929\" title=\"barnes\" src=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/barnes-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/barnes-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/barnes.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Harrison Barnes\u2019 announcement that he would return for his sophomore  season at North Carolina has further reduced the pool of top players  available for the NBA 2011 draft.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the start of the season, Harrison was predicted to be the No.1  pick, but a rocky start dropped his value before he regained his status  in March. He adds his name to the list of other top players who have  opted out of this year\u2019s draft, including Tar Heel teammates Tyler  Zeller and John Henson. Jared Sullinger of Ohio State, Perry Jones of  Baylor, Jeremy Lamb of Connecticut and Kris Joseph of Syracuse have all  withdrawn their names from consideration. The mass exodus may have  something to do with a looming NBA lockout.<\/p>\n<p>Other possible lottery picks who have yet to declare their intentions  are Kentucky\u2019s Brandon Knight and Terence Jones. The lean draft this  year could result in a bonanza in 2012, especially for a team like the  Celtics, who have an extra pick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harrison Barnes\u2019 announcement that he would return for his sophomore season at North Carolina has further reduced the pool of top players available for the NBA 2011 draft. Prior to the start of the season,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14,16],"tags":[1074,1073,1071,888,1069,1070,1072],"class_list":["post-1928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-featured-news","category-sports-recreation","tag-harrison-barnes","tag-lamb","tag-names","tag-nba","tag-top-draft-picks","tag-withdraw","tag-zeller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1930,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions\/1930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}